The Vinyl Countdown # 1185
V/A, Tour of Duty III [OST] (1989) I loved the Tour of Duty soundtracks so much – and the TV show too; maybe I watched the show because of the music. It got me hooked on all the Vietnam films, the...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 883
V/A, Tour of Duty 4 [OST] (1989) I had the first four of the Tour of Duty soundtracks on tape. A huge education – formative stuff. I was young, fascinated by all this music. And to this day the first...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 1185
V/A, Tour of Duty III [OST] (1989) I loved the Tour of Duty soundtracks so much – and the TV show too; maybe I watched the show because of the music. It got me hooked on all the Vietnam films, the...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 883
V/A, Tour of Duty 4 [OST] (1989) I had the first four of the Tour of Duty soundtracks on tape. A huge education – formative stuff. I was young, fascinated by all this music. And to this day the first...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 762
Paul Hardcastle, 19 [Single] (1985) I was such a fan of this song as a kid – it was so weird, unlike almost anything else I’d heard on the pop charts, its video too, the backstory about the war became...
View ArticleR.I.P. Michael Herr
Michael Herr has died. He was 76. He wrote the greatest book about war, one of the greatest non-fiction books you might ever read. I first came across Herr’s name – and extracts of his work – in the...
View ArticleMovies of My Life # 18: Dead Presidents
I think about the movie Dead Presidents a lot – and I’ve seen it a few times too. It might not be many people’s idea of a true classic movie but it felt like a truly profound experience to me when I...
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